VOLUME XXIII, NO. 50 DECEMBER 16, 1970 PLATEAU OF UNDERSTANDING THE critical self-consciousness of modern thought is now well established. One need think only of such books as Floyd Matson's The Broken Image, Michael Polanyi's Personal Knowledge, and A. H. Maslow's The Psychology of Scie ...

VOLUME XXIII, NO. 52 DECEMBER 30, 1970 THE ROOTS OF SOCIAL ORDER WHILE "Newton's methodology for physics," as Whitehead pointed out, "was an overwhelming success," the "natural forces" on which it was based left Nature "without meaning or value." The World Machine was a dead Nature, and ...

VOLUME XXIII, NO. 48 DECEMBER 2, 1970 TWILIGHT OF THE GODS WE are fairly used to hearing about gods that fail, or of gods that die, since these phrases come easily to the lips of literate men, but we have little awareness of the character of the disorders which overtake a people afflicte ...

VOLUME XXIII, NO. 49 DECEMBER 9, 1970 A QUESTION OF GOALS THERE is no lack, today, of instruction in what ought to be done. The reader is overwhelmed with warnings, timetables, and manuals for action. Books are filled with carefully compiled analyses of the accountability of modern man. ...

VOLUME XXIII, NO. 19 MAY 13, 1970 WHAT IS A GOOD BOOK? ONE distinguishing mark of a good book is found in the way the writer has used his primary and secondary sources. While these terms are usually applied to the materials of history—"primary" meaning original data, the documents or art ...

VOLUME XXIII, NO. 51 DECEMBER 23, 1970 THE AGE OF PREOCCUPATIONS THE justifications of the pluralistic conception of truth are many and obvious. In a complicated world like ours, who can deny that we need specialists to take charge of matters which are not understood except by experts? O ...

VOLUME XXIII, NO. 35 SEPTEMBER 2, 1970 THE ILLUSIONS OF POWER OVER-KILL is a stubby word which exactly conveys what its users intended—an execution of human beings far beyond the estimated "need." The term belongs to the morally indifferent language of technical expertise, which delibera ...

VOLUME XXIII, NO. 24 JUNE 17, 1970 THE QUESTION OF IDENTITY THAT the energies behind the modern "quest for identity" are essentially subjective in origin seems beyond debate. In about a quarter of a century, the polarity of driving human inquiry has reversed; questions which fall under t ...

VOLUME XXIII, NO. 21 MAY 27, 1970 WHAT IS THE STUFF OF HISTORY? HOW does a man find the growing edge of his life—the best place to focus his determination and his energies on the raw materials of experience? If we could have a workable answer to this question—one that would not reduce or ...

VOLUME XXIII, NO. 15 APRIL 15, 1970 ARCHETYPES OF SEARCH IT does not matter much that when a man first begins to think seriously about the meaning of his life, and of life in general, he may take some wondering satisfaction in the idea that no one else has ever thought this way before. W ...